Over two decades of grant awards from a New York State environmental conservation program are documented in this dataset. It lists project funding details, including year, county, amount, category, location, and project name. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation manages the program, which began in 1987.
Use Cases
- Analyze grant_amount distribution by county and year to identify funding trends.
- Map general_location data to visualize the geographic focus of conservation spending.
- Categorize projects by grant_category to assess program priorities over time.
- Track project_name and funding details for specific initiative case studies.
Strengths
- Data covers awards from 1999 onward, providing a multi-decade record.
- Includes multiple key data fields: year, county, amount, category, location, and project name.
Limitations
- The exact number of grant records (rows) is not specified.
- Sample data and column details are unavailable for preliminary inspection.
- Data may have geographic bias, focusing solely on the Hudson River estuary watershed.
Provenance
- Source
- New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- 1999 to present (as of last update).
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Tidal Hudson River and its adjacent watershed in New York State.